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Yeah, I meant that currently, there is no way to do non-trivial mathematical calculations with either of default builds of busybox* [1] or toybox [2]

[1] https://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html [2] http://landley.net/toybox/status.html#done

*In busybox, there is `dc` but that is really hard to code in due to RPN.

Thanks for that note about bc being a build dependency of Linux kernel! For other people, more info here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/439483/306382



> Yeah, I meant that currently, there is no way to do non-trivial mathematical calculations with either of default builds of busybox* [1] or toybox [2]

Yeah, that is a fair assessment; thank you for clarifying.

Rob has said that when he goes through my `bc` and ensures it is up to his standards, he'll take it out of `pending` and put it in `posix`.

Honestly, I don't know why he won't just accept me as the maintainer of it; I know it's already up to his standards because my `bc` is more well-tested than the rest of toybox combined. And I've fuzzed it to the point where I am confident that it has no memory bugs.




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